[ih] Cluster Addressing and CIDR

[David P. Reed]

At 03:16 PM 1/14/2003 -0800, Joe Touch wrote:
>Doing things that violate private rights for the "public good," despite 
>the current fashion, are detestable.

Copyright exists ONLY for the public good.   If it fails to improve the 
public good, and serves only private interests, the Government should no 
longer provide it.  It's not a natural law, it is merely a synthetic 
construct, constructed and enforced by the Government.

There are no "private rights" to transmit information to others, but then 
constrain what they do with it.

The most interesting analogy is in the patent law.   Once you share an 
invention with others, you lose the right to exclude, unless you use 
patents, in which case you gain a purely synthetic right for a very limited 
time, crafted entirely because of a public good argument.